So we now had a Purple plant that I loved the looks the flavor even the buzz in the mornings. Black Russian even has scissor goo that looks like grape taffy. The problem is I am known for devastating potency and incredible raised trichomes. Now if you follow us at all you know I think Grimm??s Apollo-13 is the cure all to lack of potency and so far I have been absolutely correct. So we take a male using our same criteria with a new twist, we budded all the males out and selected the one with the most purple coloring. Now we can have a month long discussion on botany and argue if this works or not or like we did make it and grow it out and see what happens.



What happened was amazing!

We also use the power of the internet and through auction release the new hybrid to hundreds of growers all across the land. What we found out is there are two basic phenotypes in SP 1 a Pink/purple pheno that is much better than Black Russian with hint of A-13 and a great deal more resin than any of the BR phenotypes. This was about what I expected in the outcross and we ran Pinky several times enjoying every bud, but more so it was just an amazing plant to take pictures of so I kept it around J

The other phenotype was the big surprise. About day 30 the White phenotype we nick named simply whitey was forming a much more dense Cola and had a smell that reminded me of Fanta Blue Cream Soda. As time went out say week 6 in 12/12 she started smelling nasty like rotting turkey of something bizarre past day 56 she started getting sweet but the weird meat or stale refrigerator smell kinda lingered in the bottom. We jarred it and I didn??t touch it for a few weeks. One morning I was surprised at a sweet/sour smell that was very nice and that cream soda smell had returned. I smoked a few bowls while answering e-mails and all the sudden noticed I was extremely high. My peripheral vision was shot and space and time slowed to a crawl.
Later I sent some samples to TOB and she commented it made her trees seem cartoon like. I knew we had a winner and released it.

So now I have an established dank color strain but I am more intrigued with the Whitey genetics. We crack a load of Sputnik 1 and select a male that does not have any purple traits visible. We later learned it was still passed on but in smaller percentages. The coolest thing is Apollo-13 taken late past 65 days gets color as well!

Sputnik featured on Big Book of Buds 3